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The Birth of a Movement by Dick Lehr, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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The Birth of a Movement by Dick Lehr, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
The Birth of a Movement by Dick Lehr, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Dick Lehr

The Birth of a Movement by Dick Lehr, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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At the dawn of the modern civil rights movement, Monroe Trotter, a journalist agitator, and D. W. Griffith, a technically brilliant filmmaker, incited a public confrontation that roiled America, pitting black against white, Hollywood against Boston, and free speech against the fight for equality. Monroe Trotter and D. W. Griffith were fighting over a film that dramatized the Civil War and Reconstruction in a post-Confederate South. Griffith's film, The Birth of a Nation, included actors in blackface, heroic portraits of Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and a depiction of Lincoln's assassination. Freed slaves were portrayed as villainous, vengeful, slovenly, and dangerous to the sanctity of American values. It was tremendously successful, eventually seen by 25 million Americans. But violent protests against the film flared up across the country. Almost fifty years earlier, Monroe's father, James, was a sergeant in an all-black Union regiment that marched into Charleston, South Carolina, just as the Kentucky cavalry-including Roaring Jack Griffith, D. W.'s father-fled for their lives. Monroe Trotter's titanic crusade to have the film censored became a blueprint for dissent during the 1950s and 1960s. This is the fiery story of a revolutionary moment for mass media and the nascent civil rights movement, and the men clashing over the cultural and political soul of a still-young America standing at the cusp of its greatest days. | The Birth of a Movement by Dick Lehr, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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